NOBLE - North Carolina BARD Local

NOBLE (North Carolina BARD Local) is a North Carolina service similar to BARD through which users can download locally produced digital braille and digital talking books and magazines. No application is necessary. Volumes will be added quarterly as they become available. Please note that all digital talking books available from NOBLE are produced in a format that can only be read on an NLS approved player. Just like BARD, downloaded audio files are zipped and need to be unzipped onto a flash drive to play.

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Digital Talking Books

The following locally produced Digital Talking Books are available:

Nvr Nevr Never Quit
by Bonnie Habel
Read by Drew Smith. Reading time approximately 3 hours 10 minutes.
- Download Nvr Nevr Never Quit, DBX01227
Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
by John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed, with William McKinney.
Read by John Stein. Reading time approximately 11 hours.
- Download Holy Smoke, DBX01133
Mercy Me
by Margaret A. Graham.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 4 hours 40 minutes.
- Download Mercy Me, DBX01134
Silk Flags and Cold Steel: The Civil War in North Carolina, the Piedmont
by William R. Trotter.
Read by John Stein. Reading Time approximately 14 hours 30 minutes.
- Download Silk Flags and Cold Steel, DBX01136
Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina, the mountains
by William R. Trotter.
Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 15 hours.
- Download Bushwhackers, DBX01160
Shell Game: a Professor Simon Shaw Mystery
by Sarah R. Shaber.
Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 30 minutes.
- Download Shell Game, DBX01161
Good Heavens: Part of the Esmeralda Series
by Margaret A. Graham.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 7 hours.
- Download Good Heavens, DBX01162
Land Sakes: Part of the Esmeralda Series
by Margaret A. Graham.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 45 minutes.
- Download Land Sakes, DBX01163
The Bug Funeral: a Professor Simon Shaw Mystery
by Sarah R. Shaber.
Read by Marti Miller. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 15 minutes.
- Download The Bug Funeral, DBX01164
Beyond the Darkness: A literary journal
Presented by the students of The Governor Morehead School for the Blind, located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Includes student artwork, poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, and creative non-fiction.
edited by Linda West Wooten.
Read by Sherrie Zeblisky. Reading Time approximately 1 hour.
- Download Beyond the Darkness, DBX01183
Tar Heel Traveler: Journeys across North Carolina
by Scott Mason.
Read by Jeff Ashburn. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 35 minutes.
- Download Tar Heel Traveler, DBX01195
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook
by Georgann Eubanks.
Read by Lisa Macy. Reading Time approximately 14 hours.
- Download Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, DBX01196
Cataloochee
by Wayne Caldwell.
Read by Drew Smith. Reading Time approximately 12 hours 15 minutes.
- Download Cataloochee, DBX01197
Requiem by Fire
by Wayne Caldwell.
Read by Daniel Wade. Reading Time approximately 11 hours 50 minutes.
- Download Requiem by Fire, DBX01217
Christmas Cake
by Lynne Hinton.
Read by Marti Miller. Reading Time approximately 6 hours 20 minutes.
- Download Christmas Cake, DBX01219